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  1. Frayed Knot
    The good part going forward is that there is a tie-breaking system for determining next year's draft picks. When two teams finish with the same record, the draft order is determined by comparing records of the previous season. So in this case, the Mets (15th pick) wind up picking one spot ahead of the Braves (16th) next June.
  2. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, but, an alternative is the semi-platoon, as noted above, where he gets perhaps every-other lefty starter. That could allow for a best-of-both-worlds scenario, where he gets time enough to improve, without enough time to sink the ship.. Sure, you have someone RHB on your squad capable of playing 1B, that's virtually an automatic. I just don't want them to (and don't think they will) start 2015 with the idea of sitting Duda down one to two games per week simply to have him avoid LHPs
  3. Frayed Knot
    If only he hadn't diverted so much of his attention to Japanese women's soccer.
  4. Frayed Knot
    I got the impression that he was improving vs LHPs as the year went on. Not sure if that's provable or not, but he at least was able to break out of the Catch-22 situation where he was sat vs LHPs because he couldn't hit them and he couldn't prove he could hit them or Improve against them because he was always sitting. Once out of those shackles he was understandably underwhelming early on in his playing every day mode but did seem to get more comfortable as the repetitions piled up. He's an everyday player now. If it's midway through next season and he's still laying an egg every time he sees a southpaw then you deal with in then, but I don't go into the season thinking platoon.
  5. Frayed Knot
    Sonny Gray pitches Oakland into the 2nd WC spot with a complete game 4-0 shutout. It's been a long fall from baseball's best record and best +/- at mid-season but it beats missing out entirely. Seattle also leading 4-0 but it's a case of TLTL A's @ KC Tuesday night on TBS - survivor heads to Anaheim Orioles host Tigers
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    Weird in my mind that they'd prefer to have him on ten days rest rather than just get a couple innings in today, but they're there and I'm not.
  7. Frayed Knot
    Not sure what other hints to give. You've already got that it was the first and only HR of his career and the exact date. So other than telling you that his initials were Chris Jelic I don't know what else to say. Last player to do it, btw, was Jim Edmonds who hit the 393rd of his career for the Cincinnati Reds in September 2010 His was the 2nd highest HR total to end a career (behind Williams of course). Zeile's was 3rd highest just ahead of Ray Lankford. I count a dozen guys who, like Jelic, hit the only HR of their career in their final ML AB
  8. Frayed Knot
    1st game for them won't be until friday which will be his regular day anyway so I assume he's pitching anyway today (game just starting). They'll probably just pull him early. Give him the old 'Five and Fly'.
  9. Frayed Knot
    Tigers win to capture the Central KC game now means nothing although they're losing in Chi-town. Oakland leading in Texas 2-0 in the 4th Seattle game just starting with King Felix on the mound. Still a small shot at having a Game #163
  10. Frayed Knot
    Pirates lose, so the Cardinals game just starting now becomes irrelevant. East = Nationals Central = Cards West = Dodgers Pirates host Giants Wednesday night for the WC tilt, winner heads to Washington Cards head to LA
  11. Frayed Knot
    Lefty Specialist wrote: The empty car wash was all kinds of awesome. And Duda high-fiving imaginary teammates was even better. Where was everybody? I missed that part.
  12. Frayed Knot
    I'm not buying that Terry's everyday lineup decisions need to be cleared from above.
  13. Frayed Knot
    1) October 3rd, 1981; Mike Cubbage, 34th career HR in his final ML AB 2) October 3rd, 1990 --- 1st and last ML HR in his final ML AB 3) October 3rd, 1993; Chico Walker, 17th career HR in his final AB 4) October 3rd, 2004; Todd Zeile, 253rd career HR in his final AB It's good of you all to get your guesses in before Greg shows up and recites them all from memory.
  14. Frayed Knot
    So Jeter's career ends on an infield single and being pulled for a PR. It was the 507th infield hit for him, some 14.2% of his total (a shade less than 1 in 7) I wonder how that stacks up among those with similar number of hits? Maybe if I get ambitious I might take a stab at researching guys, say with 2,500-plus, although I don't know if that kind of breakdown will exist for some of the old-timers.
  15. Frayed Knot
    Zvon wrote: Abreu singles and is pulled to a rousing round of rooting. I can do w/o this, but it's nice. 2570 hits. Hell of a career Bobby. Now go catch a shower. There is an authenticator in the crowd just for stuff like this? It was 45 seconds of applause for the end of a great career plus a handshake from countryman Altuve. No pre-arranged dog and pony show, no dugouts emptying him, nothing over the top. Nice moment and well deserved. Mets have gone over the top with other stuff in the past (Lenny Harris's PH record, Franco's _00 save (I forget exactly which round number it was) ... but this wasn't one of them.
  16. Frayed Knot
    1) October 3rd, 1981 --- 34th career HR in his final ML AB 2) October 3rd, 1990 --- 1st and last ML HR in his final ML AB 3) October 3rd, 1993; Chico Walker, 17th career HR in his final AB 4) October 3rd, 2004; Todd Zeile, 253rd career HR in his final AB
  17. Frayed Knot
    That's why I wondered back in yesterday's IGT if we were going to have enough players to field a squad today. Ordinarily in September/October games that's not a problem
  18. Frayed Knot
    Zeile = Correct Brazell = Not
  19. Frayed Knot
    Inspired in part by the idea that Bobby Abreu may go deep this afternoon, and also in part by this past week's highly touted 'Could a better script possibly have been written?' story line (than a 9th inning single in his 4th-from-last game ... umm, Yes!) 42 players since 1900 have HR'd in their final ML AB including, most famously, HoF'er Ted Williams Certainly not going to ask about all of them, but can you name the four who have done so as a New York Met? And to make things a bit easier, I'll list them in chronological order and show the career # HR that it was for each 1) 34th and final career HR 2) 1st and, quite obviously, his only 3) 17th 4) 253rd And in a bit of an oddity (although only a bit) all four of these incidents occurred on an October 3rd
  20. Frayed Knot
    Hey why not? In fact, if you take the four long-time players who pre-announced their retirements effective at the end of the season--Derek Jeter, Bobby Abreu, Paul Konerko, Adam Dunn--and place each in order of career OPS and then in order of hoopla surrounding his last game, you might find yourself getting a little something that mathematicians like to call: Inverse Correlation So, yes, I think that uniform patches, commemorative bases, military fly-overs, and the like should be the order of the day in several stadiums this afternoon.
  21. Frayed Knot
    Seattle loads the bases in the bottom of the 9th w/no outs in a tie game and a chance to stay in it ... and they don't score (K, K, FO). Heading for extras. Oakland, Detroit & KC all lost.
  22. Frayed Knot
    No worse now than a 3rd place tie - could be a 2-way tie, or maybe a 3-way. Magic number for clinching at least a tie for 2nd is 1
  23. Frayed Knot
    And the trend continues of nobody actually wanting these final AL slots. Oakland losing, Detroit losing (big), KC losing, Seattle losing.
  24. Frayed Knot
    Cheers a bit more high-pitched than usual.
  25. Frayed Knot
    I think I saw a hint of a smile on the big boy.
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